Platform Engineer, Database Reliability

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About the role

  • Platform Engineer supporting production MySQL environments at Bold Commerce, enhancing reliability and operational maturity while collaborating with Engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Support the reliability, scalability, and operational maturity of production MySQL environments and core production infrastructure
  • Manage and improve database replication, failover, backups, recovery, upgrades, and performance optimization
  • Contribute to cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, and operational tooling initiatives
  • Support infrastructure-as-code and automation efforts using Terraform and related technologies
  • Improve monitoring, alerting, and operational visibility across systems and applications
  • Troubleshoot database, infrastructure, and application-related issues in production environments
  • Partner with Engineering and Platform teams to improve reliability, scalability, operational efficiency, and production readiness
  • Support incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation efforts
  • Contribute to operational best practices and continuous platform improvements
  • Participate in an on-call rotation supporting production systems

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Database Reliability, or similar roles
  • Strong experience managing and supporting production MySQL database infrastructure, including replication, failover, backup/recovery, upgrades, and performance optimization
  • Experience supporting highly available cloud infrastructure in environments such as GCP
  • Exposure to or experience working with technologies such as Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation
  • Strong Linux systems administration, troubleshooting, and incident response experience
  • Experience with monitoring, observability, and alerting platforms
  • Scripting or automation experience using Bash, Go, Python, JavaScript, or similar languages
  • Familiarity with security, access management, and operational best practices
  • Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible is considered an asset
  • Strong troubleshooting, communication, and problem-solving skills
  • Comfortable operating independently in a lean, fast-moving environment with broad ownership and a focus on reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement

Benefits

  • Employer Paid Health & Dental Benefits - starting day 1!
  • Annual Health Benefit ($1,000 per year) to help you thrive!
  • Virtual mental health and EAP platform for support anytime
  • Employee Options to help you grow with us!
  • Flexible work hours
  • Competitive paid vacation days

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AnsibleCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptKubernetesLinuxMySQLPythonTerraformGo

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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